Wisconsin State Blitz Championship

Open Champion - Erik Santarius
Scholastic Champion - Jordan Smith

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Midwest Class Championships

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Conrad Holt

I got a chance to ask Conrad a few questions, at the Midwest Class Championships but before we get to that a few facts:

Age : 15
Rating : 2262
Home town : Wichita, Kansas
Number of tournaments to get from 1600-2000 : six in 10 months
Number of tournaments to get from 2000-2200 : nine in 8 months

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You seem to have made the difficult transition from expert to master fairly easily, what helped you most to achieve this?

Conrad: Playing on ICC (mostly 3, 5 and 15 min. games) & studying opening books.

Do you have a coach?

Conrad: No

What's your record against GMs?

Conrad: I played GM for the fist time in round 1 and drew him. (Dmitry Gurevich)
(Conrad finished with 2.5/5.0 with losses to Yury Shulman & Benjamin Finegold)

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When do you think you will become a GM?

Conrad: In 2 years.

When is your next tournament?

Conrad: Not sure, but I will participate in the next US Chess School

Southwest Chess Club 4 round Swiss [G/100]

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Car pooling : Mason Ohio Nov 14 (from Milwaukee)

Nov 14-16 or 15-16, 2008: Kings Island Open, Mason OH
3-day Schedule

Spots available : 3

HCC VIII

I finished with 2-1=1 and lost 3 rating points. The loss was to co-champion Allen Becker. I misplayed the middle game, but reached the following equal position as Black. But in mutual time trouble played Qxc4??, which loses a piece to Bxe4.

Hales Corners Challenge VIII

Emory Tate, Angelo Young, Steven Tennant & Allen Becker tie for first with 3.5/4.0

USCF Results

Nolan Hendrickson vs Angelo Young & Emory Tate vs David Sagunsky round 1

History: number of players (open+reserve) and the winner(s):
HCC VIII.10/2008 (33+32=65) TATE, YOUNG, TENNANT, BECKERHCC VII..04/2008 (22+30=52) BURGESS, TENNANT, PARKER
HCC VI...10/2007 (30+32=62) TENNANT, BREIDER, SANTARIUS
HCC V....04/2007 (40+22=62) TATE, STAMNOV
HCC IV...11/2006 (23+26=49) STAMNOV
HCC III..04/2006 (28+17=45) TENNANT
HCC II...10/2005 (20+18=38) BURGESS, BECKER
HCC I....04/2005 (34+36=70) BETANELI
Most wins:
4 TENNANT 2 TATE, BURGESS, STAMNOV, BECKER